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Span of Control and Span of Activity
Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella; Wulf, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
For both practitioners and researchers, span of control plays an important role in defining and understanding the role of the CEO. In this paper, we combine organizational chart information for a sample of 65 companies with detailed data on how their CEOs allocate their work time, which we...
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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy
Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry G.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649751
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In brief: Can industrial policy boost jobs?
Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549054
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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work
Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 … devote to work activities, and longer working hours are associated with higher firm productivity, growth, profitability and …
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Unions and Productivity, Financial Performance and Investment: International Evidence
Metcalf, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
If the presence of a union in a workplace or firm raises the pay level, unless productivity rises correspondingly … senescence. Therefore the impact of unions on productivity, financial performance and investment is extremely important. This … to use theory to predict unambiguously any union effect on productivity because unions can both enhance and detract from …
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